Take a trip step inside 11 dramatic virtual tours some of the most beautiful theaters, concert halls and opera houses in the world. Carnegie Hall, The Colosseum in Rome, and The Sydney Opera House are just a few of the amazing trips you take!
What does it look like to embrace curiosity? These five strategies can help you embrace curiosity at home. Each one is flexible for different ages and ready to adapt to your child’s interests.
This article also includes activity ideas, guiding questions and plenty of options for boosting curiosity both inside and outside of the classroom.
Curate your own exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario; swim with African penguins at the San Diego Zoo; travel back in time at the Louvre; visit the Canadian Museum of History; blast into outer space with NASA. This site offers all of these opportunities for your student to experience.
Most major art museums around the world offer virtual tours and resources for free. We Are Teachers offers a long list of virtual museum tours, including Benaki Museum, The Frick Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art’s #MetKids, Musée d’Orsay, Museo Frida Kahlo, The Museum of the World, The National Gallery, The National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern: Andy Warhol Exhibit, The Van Gogh Museum, The Vatican Museums.
Is everyone ready for a (virtual) vacation?!
City Guesser is a geography based browser game that strives to provide an exceptional travel and guessing experience.
If you love GeoGuessr - you'll love this!
Choose the world, a continent or even Canada to explore!
Google Arts and Culture is a massive collection of videos and images of cultural artifacts from over 2,000 museums around the world. You can explore places around the world and gather vetted resources for lessons and activities for your classroom.
There are many things you can do with web version but there is even MORE to explore when you download the Arts and Culture App available for Android and IOS.
10 Things you can do with Google Arts and Culture: (plus much more!)
1. Explore pocket galleries
2. Color famous artwork
3. Take an art selfie
4. Play in a blob opera
5. Go on a Google Expedition
6. Do the cultural 5
7. Take an (augmented) reality check
8. Zoom in on art
9. Grab a lesson plan
10. Try a crossword puzzle
Street View Treks gives a first-person view to some of the most spectacular locations in the world, from Mount Fuji to the Grand Canyon to the Taj Mahal in India. Check out the maps, 360 panoramic images and videos.
Great Lakes Now brings along students on a virtual field trip to learn more about the importance of coastal wetlands, the danger of algal blooms and a deep dive into lake sturgeon.
This experience is targeted for 6-8th grade, but is certainly not limited to this age group.
You can take a tour of 18 different scenes from the International Space Station with this Google Earth tour. Visit the Columbus Research Laboratory, SpaceX Dragon Docking Vehicle and more!
Visit an egg farm without leaving the comfort of your own classroom or home! Join our team on a tour of the MEGGFarm, and experience what it is like to visit a local egg farm. You'll learn all about eggs and egg farming by completing the viewing guide and examining the accompanying resourecs.
Travel back in time and explore the last standing ancient world wonder through Google Maps Treks. Learn more about the history, location, purpose, materials, and labor required to build the magnificent structures.
CCMI’s (CENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE) education team has developed a transformational, interactive education programme using Virtual Live Experiences (VLEs) methods to connect students and the public to real-time coral reef activity, in an informal science setting. Scientists use high tech face masks and streaming computer equipment to deliver live lessons from the underwater and lab environment. Innovative technology enables VLEs to reduce barriers to learning by communicating interactive ‘real-life’ experiences in an informal, scalable science setting.
Register to take part in the Reefs Go Live Broadcasts, which include curriculum-relevant lessons and student worksheets (student and teacher versions).
We use energy to power our lives every day—to boot up our computers, fuel our cars, charge our cell phones, flick on a light switch, and in a myriad of other ways. Join scientist Alex Wegmann as we embark on a Virtual Field Trip to explore a compelling question: How can we get the energy we need without harming nature? By harnessing renewable sources of energy, such as sunlight and wind, scientists are finding ways to do just that.
Come and learn all about sport in Saskatchewan. Virtual field trip options available.
Geared towards students in grade 6-8, this virtual field trip from the American Museum of Natural History explores how plate tectonics explains specific Earth formations.
This field trip includes a teachers guide, student worksheets and extension activities.
Designed for ages 9-15 but customizable for all ages, virtual field trips allow students to travel the world and explore natural environments without leaving the classroom. Each virtual field trip contains a video, teacher guide, and student activities.
Enjoy these virtual field trips and accompanying materials:
1. The Secret Life of Corals - Learn how fragile reefs are being damaged by human activity and climate change, and how scientists are developing ways to restore corals.
2. View from a Canoe - Can you imagine a place with 100 million acres of forest and 30,000 miles of coastline? It exists. The Emerald Edge is home to the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest.
3. The Coral Reefs of Palau - Join our expert scientist, marine biologist Stephanie Wear, on a virtual field trip to the coral reefs of Palau where you'll explore amazing underwater cities.
4. China's Great Forests - Join our expert scientist Yue Wang, a conservation planning officer for The Nature Conservancy, on a virtual field trip across the world to two stunning provinces in China.
5. Powering the Planet: Renewable Energy - Join scientist Alex Wegmann as we embark on a Virtual Field Trip to explore a compelling question: How can we get the energy we need without harming nature?
6. Journey of Water: Colombia’s Páramo - In this virtual field trip, we will explore the magical páramo ecosystem and the stunning mountain landscapes found just beyond the capital city of Bogotá.
7. Peru: A Coastal Ecosystem - Join fisheries scientist Matias Caillaux to explore the Humboldt Current Ecosystem off the coast of Peru while learning about the area’s amazing diversity and productivity.
"Our virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop of mobile device. Visitors can also access select research and collections areas at our satellite support and research stations and past exhibits no longer on display. Many of the tours provide a view of previously unseen archives or holdings."
Experience the Smithsonian without leaving home!